Today's Tomás Estrada-Palma Message

I am the great grandson of Don Tomás Estrada-Palma, the first elected President of Cuba (1902-1906).
"Where I am different from most people in the group is I know I am a slave but I think freely while the group thinks they are free while being enslaved..." - Tomas Estrada-Palma, IV -

Saturday, September 16, 2006

Your Island Or Your Life

Your Island Or Your Life

Life is ironic. Fidel is dying with cancer and I know a cure for cancer. He wants to live and I want Cuba holding elections with free, happy, wealthy, enlightened Cubans. This mind you is not disinformation. I’ve seen the cure work before my eyes. My best friend’s mother was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer with 6 six months to live. They wanted to cut out half her throat and tongue and voice box and God knows what else but she wasn’t going for it. I recommended the cure to my friend and he gave it to her. Sure enough when she went to the specialist 1 month later after taking the cure regularly the M.D. stated that if he didn’t know better he’d swear she never had cancer. It was completely gone. Of course she was only sixty-five with no stroke complications and she had not sustained any permanent major organ damage.

She lived another couple years until she decided to quit taking the cure and the cancer came right back and killed her. But she was tired of living and it was her wish. Perhaps Fidel wants to die too? He will soon enough hope to die as the pain increases. The pain killers have side effects too. Constipation is always a bother as the dope slows the digestive track as well as the pain. The mind is foggy and lips can’t form words because the connection to the brain is gone. He knows what he wants to say but can’t. It’s real frustrating believe me. I’ve been there. I damaged my vocal cord and could not speak for a month. I did just what Fidel is doing now – writing little notes like the ones they keep releasing in these propaganda pictures - for what I wanted. More and more everyone around you treats you like a child because people equate not speaking with being a child. It is very humiliating and you can’t say peep about it. So you blow your breath out and take it – especially if you don’t feel well.

But Fidel if you wanted to give it a shot and mind you I’m not making you any guarantees in your case because you’re old as dirt now plus I don’t know if you have already suffered irreparable organ damage – but call me. One of your goons has my number I’m certain. However make the call from outside Cuba and take Raul along with you as well as all the communist apparatchiks. In other words – your island or your life. But your time is running out. You make the call!

Thursday, September 14, 2006

21st Century New Media

21st Century New Media

The television networks and national print media could do a wonderful job informing people of many important things happening in the world today. But they do not. Instead, they focus their camera lenses and printer ink on diversionary stories that hide the truth through omission. We can only focus on one thing at a time and most people are content to watch the news and think what they see is all that is happening in the world.

For example, a friend at work heard me jabbering about how bad things are in Cuba and he asked me if Castro hadn’t really been good for Cuba and the Cuban people. That is when I began showing Dave some recent pictures on therealcuba website. http://www.therealcuba.com/ Suddenly, his whole opinion of the island changed. The poverty was shocking to him. He is an artist and he saw all of the formally beautiful architecture crumbling into the dirt. He witnessed the emaciated people with sullen desperate faces just milling around or worse - digging through trash cans to sustain themselves. He noted that we have poverty here as well with trashcan divers. At first he found it hard to believe what he saw on therealcuba. He thought that perhaps this was just some small portion of Cuba and wondered if there weren’t nice areas on the island. So I showed these areas to him – the tourist areas. I explained that unless you were involved in serving the tourists' needs you were forbidden, as a Cuban, to even be in these areas. I explained that young attractive Cuban women were admitted into the tourists’ spots to sell their body because it is a real tourist attraction for many men. I let him compare the clean tourists’ bathrooms with the university’s filthy ones.

The point is we cannot depend on the Miami Heralds of the world to change things. Instead, depend on them to work very hard to keep things just as they are. Fortunately people are fed up with them and are looking for answers. Bloggers are the 21st Century media. Those who seek the truth can now find it here and on numerous other blogs. So when news media blindly parrot the assertions of the Cuban junta we are there to correct them. Every time we do so we become stronger and they less credible. The people already know that big media is leading them astray so they just ignore it. But as we experience more and more pain and tribulations brought about by bad public policy they will seek the truth. So we are there now for them at the stroke of their keyboard and a mouse click or two. In the past I struggle in vain to express ideas that I believe would make the world a better place for everyone. But in the month that I’ve had my blog up I’ve reached more people, all across the world, than I did in the entire decade of the 1980s trying to go through the traditional big media. I learn so much here in the blogger world that for me it has replaced the big media. They still don’t get it though. They think they can turn back the clock and regain readers and viewers by redesigning the newspaper layouts and with snappy jingles. Many, especially newspapers, have already become extinct. This trend will continue while each day we grow stronger. One day in the near future we will replace the daily newspaper and the nightly news. That is because you are dedicated to telling the truth while they are committed only to their bottom lines.

So let us keep making connection. Please, if anyone has an anti-Castro blog, or Chavez or Lulu or any anti tyrant blog send me your link if you are not already on my blog. I will gleefully put your link on my blog so we can continue to build our own network for truth. Send it to trestradapalma@verizon.net and I’ll continue to promote your blogs.

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Chavez Claims Inflated

Chavez Claims Inflated

Chavez is worried about inflation in Venezuela. He cut the VAT 1 percent to fight inflation. Fortunately for Venezuelans I have discovered the cause of inflation. IT IS CAUSED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING UP TOO MUCH MONEY! Most people believe inflation is higher prices for goods and services. Actually these are signs of inflation.

What actually is occurring is Chavez is printing extra money to pay for the things that his socialist economy cannot pay for because this form of economy never can generate enough wealth. Inflation is one of the three ways government funds itself. Government can tax and spend, borrow and spend or inflate the money supply and spend. For Venezuela the poverty induced by bad government makes taxing unrealistic because they generate so little wealth. Also the people see it being taken and it upsets them greatly. Borrowing is not possible for Chavez because – well…would you lend this crook money? Of course not! So Chavez must settle for inflating his money supply. Unfortunately, as the supply of money increases there, while the supply of goods and services stays the same or even shrinks, prices must rise to reflect the drop in value of the currency. For example, if Chavez doubles the supply of money in Venezuela its value drops by one half. Money is NOT wealth. Money is but a means to convey wealth.

But for Cubans and Venezuelans alike who want to see Chavez go here is the good news. Every government that has inflated the money supply has been replaced shortly thereafter. That is because once you start down this road to inflating the money supply to make the economy feel better you become like an alcoholic who takes another drink to feel better. It is hard to stop. The longer it continues the more painful the withdrawal symptoms. So all those who love freedom lets hope Chavez turns up the printing presses to Ludicrous Speed.

About Me

Let entrepreneurs into Cuba, keep the tax low and watch the economic explosion happen. Whenever there are more jobs than workers the wages and benefits are driven upward. That's because entrepreneurs compete for a limited supply of workers. Those who lose the competition will not be as successful because they can't grow without more laborers. Finally, the first modern society on the planet will be populated by people who are neither slaves to the pharaohs of industry nor government. Cuban workers will have the best job security in the world!